The Pie Bake a’la Beverly Hills & Piesta, the pie-loving, pie-baking event of the season, returns to the Beverly Hills Farmers’ Market this Sunday, June 12 from 9am to 1pm at the market’s Civic Center Drive location.

The Santa Monica YWCA, which has been serving the Santa Monica community from its location on the corner of Pico and 14th since 1972, is closing down and going up for sale on June 30.

Six Santa Monica teenagers will be awarded the highest rank one can earn in the Boy Scouts of America on Sunday June 12.

Parker Racie Furlong, Ronald JJ Hawthorne Harris-Gavin, Aiden Jeffrey Metz, Matthew Lee Morawiec, Sasha Steffes, and Eli Warshauer will be honored with the rank of Eagle Scout at the Troop 2 Eagle Court of Honor to be held at Camp Josepho.

As the LGBT community in Los Angeles gets ready to celebrate nearly half a century of civil rights progress during this weekend’s Pride Festival, most states across the country do not provide any protection for their LGBT residents in critical areas of life, such as employment, housing and qualification for loans.

Whew! The most actively contested California presidential primary election in decades is over. Candidates Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernard Sanders were ubiquitous for a month, logging thousands of miles and dozens of rallies. New voters registered by the hundreds of thousands.

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is beginning major facility improvements at both Malibu High School (MHS) and Juan Cabrillo Elementary School (JCES) this summer. The work is funded through Measures BB and ES.

Starting in the next few weeks, more than 1,200 kids at the Santa Monica Boys and Girls Club and the Mar Vista Family Center in Culver City will be provided free breakfast and lunch.

A transient was convicted today of strangling two women whose bodies were found in Santa Monica more than a decade ago.

Getting around parts of West Hollywood will be a little more difficult beginning tonight as street closures begin in advance of this weekend’s 2016 LA Pride Celebration, which will include musical acts, a festival and parade.